有難う御座います arigatō gozaimasu Thank you

有難う御座います (arigatō gozaimasu): thank you, in its polite form, and literally it is a rare thing: 有り難い meant hard to exist, rare in the Man'yōshū, and gratitude grew out of rarity.

Thank you (有難う御座います) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Thank you 有難う御座います arigatō gozaimasu Vertical Block VB7C

Thank you 有難う御座います arigatō gozaimasu Vertical Block VB7D

Thank you (有難う御座います) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Thank you 有難う御座います arigatō gozaimasu Vertical Cursive VC7B

Thank you (有難う御座います) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Thank you 有難う御座います arigatō gozaimasu Vertical Design VD6B

Thank you (有難う御座います) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Thank you 有難う御座います arigatō gozaimasu Vertical Semi-Cursive VS7C

Thank you 有難う御座います arigatō gozaimasu Vertical Semi-Cursive VS7D

More about 有難う御座います

ございます is the polite verb, in use since the 1590s. The one thing to know about this design is its spelling: it writes the thanks in kanji, 有難う御座います, where a Japanese hand today writes ありがとうございます in kana. The kanji form is the printer's: it is what was set in 1884 for a storyteller's tale taken down in shorthand, Sanyūtei Enchō's, and what some 1,700 books printed before 1946 carry. It is the printed, slightly ceremonious form.

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